the art of pkgdb -F

[Michael P. Soulier]

On 28/03/07 Robert Huff said:

> >  But I bet I'm not the only one who, once upon a time, happened to
> >  try "portupgrade -arR" or equivalent after forgetting to read
> >  UPDATING and ended up with more to do than I originally thought.
> 
> 	Might as well paint "PLEASE KICK ME!" and an arrow pointing
> down on your back ....

I'm used to binary-package distributions that seem to try a lot harder to not
break. I suppose that ports is evolving, and it used to be worse, so I
shouldn't complain. Still, if the handbook says to use portupgrade -R to
upgrade a port, that's what BSD newbies like me are going to use.

I'm just glad that portupgrade has a -n switch. 

Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier at digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20070407/29a1292e/attachment.pgp